What's New in WinZip Courier

WinZip® Courier - the compression utility for E-mail.

WinZip Courier makes it easy to zip (compress) the documents and other files that you attach to Microsoft Outlook. Zipping attachments saves transmission time and disk storage for both the sender and receiver of the e-mail. WinZip Courier also allows you to send large files easily using the ZipSend file delivery service to anybody.

WinZip Courier helps you from within your Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), from within Outlook, and even from within Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox. From Outlook, you can zip any attachments in a variety of different ways. From your Office products, you can instantly zip and e-mail any document on which you are working or save the file as a Zip file. From Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox, when you attach files to your emails in Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and/or Microsoft's Hotmail, Office365, and Live.com, WinZip Courier will automatically zip your attachments.

WinZip Courier is highly configurable and allows you to control exactly how it operates. You determine how the zipped attachments will be named, whether or not they are encrypted, the encryption method, and the compression method. In Outlook you determine which attachments are zipped, as well as how and when they are zipped. You also determine when and if to use the a cloud service to deliver your attachments.

Version 8.0

Zipping support for MP3: MP3 file compression makes it easier than ever to email large files faster and in a smaller format. With 15-20% greater compression functionality you can send MP3 attachments quickly – and all through the email platform of choice.

Configurable promped zipping: Prompted Zipping makes it simple to decide when to zip and when to skip! Specify conditions when attachments should zip automatically or choose real-time zip prompts.

Append date to Zip name: Optional Date Appending reduces the possibility of overwriting files. Append the send date/time to the default zip file name in a flash. Quickly and easily identify newer attachments and eliminate human error from the equation!

Support multiple cloud service accounts: Multiple Cloud Account Support enables users to enjoy on-the-fly choice of which account to use – all in real time. Never again logout of one account to use another! You’ll increase productivity and reduce your downtime – in no time.

Save Office files to cloud: Now zip and save your Microsoft Office files directly to the cloud. For extra security, encrypt and share with confidence.

Firefox 64-bit supported: Courier 8.0 now supports the 64-bit version of Firefox.

Version 7.0

Microsoft Office 2016 support: Courier 7.0 is designed to install and work with Microsoft Office 2016

Exclude the zipping of specific file types: Unlike standard exclusions, configuring Exclude Attachments will cause Courier to ignore these file types even when there are multiple files attached to a message.

Office 365 Outlook supported: Courier 7.0 is designed to work with Outlook online provided with your Office 365 subscription.

Open WinZip Courier Help from the Start menu: WinZip Courier Help is now an item on the Start menu providing an easy access point.

Version 6.0

MediaFire cloud service added: MediaFire, another leading cloud service provider, has been added to Courier

Zoho web email service: Support for the webmail provider ZoHo is now included with Courier 6.0

ZipShare service: The ZipShare cloud file sharing service was added to replace ZipSend. You can sign-up for the service while using Courier. Purchasing an upgrade to ZipShare Pro through Courier is also available.

Google Chrome and Firefox browser support: Support for new security changes to the Google Chrome and the FireFox browsers has been added.

New Courier icons (version 6.5): Courier has been given a fresh new set of icons

Version 5.0

Email links to your cloud files - Select files you already have stored on your cloud services to have links to them automatically inserted in your email message.

Convert files as you share them - Convert to PDF directly from Microsoft Office apps, add watermarks to protect images and PDFs, and resize images to more convenient sharing sizes.

Compress files even more - New enhanced Zip engine so you can make Zip and Zipx files smaller than ever.

Version 4.0

With WinZip Courier 4.0, zip, encrypt, and safely deliver large files without skipping a beat! Simply write an email, attach as many files as you need, and click Send—Courier will take care of the rest. Version 4.0 new features include:

Full 64-bit support: Courier 4.0 introduces support for 32-bit and 64-bit systems (including both versions of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook). This is ideal for computing environments that employ both older and newer machines.

Version 3.0

Version 3.0 of WinZip Courier (formerly called WinZip E-Mail Companion) significantly expands on the capabilities of older versions:

Microsoft Office Ribbon UI integration:WinZip Courier's new UI is designed to plug right into the Outlook and Office 2010 and 2007 ribbon UI as well as the Outlook and Office 2003 toolbar UI.

Zipx advanced Zip file compression including JPG compression: WinZip Courier 3.0 allows you to choose between "legacy" Zip 2.0 compression (compatible with any Zip file utility) and "Zipx" best compression, which provides the best Zip file compression (and a special compression method for JPG files) but requires a compatible Zip file utility such as WinZip 12.0 or later.

Zip file preview: See the content of Zip file attachments in Microsoft Outlook 2010's preview window (also Outlook 2007) with the Zip file previewer. Double click on a file in the Zip file previewer for Microsoft Outlook to open it for viewing

Update checking: Automatically check for updates to WinZip Courier. Whenever you start Outlook, if there is an update, you will be notified.

Alternate extensions: The alternate extension feature makes it easy for you to e-mail your zipped attachments to recipients whose e-mail security does not allow attachments with the ".zip" extension. Simply specify an alternate extension, and it will be used instead of ".zip".

Improved support of Word e-mail editor: The WinZip Courier ribbon or toolbar is available in e-mail messages being edited with the Word e-mail editor.